Sentence examples for area's rainfall from inspiring English sources

The area's rainfall, eight feet a year, supports the largest lowland temperate rain forest on earth, forest of such hoary grandeur that in the summer of 1993, more than 12,000 people protested the provincial government's decision to open up much of the sound to clear-cut logging of the ancient hemlock, cedar and Sitka spruce.

The area's rainfall averages 134 cm annually, varying from 50 cm at its lowest to 225 cm at its highest.

Capitalizing on the area's abundant rainfall, the team installed a rainwater harvesting system.

We applied a δ18O/altitude gradient and well-established lapse rates to find that groundwater recharge predominantly occurs in the area's maximum rainfall zone.

The already-dire circumstances were complicated by the release of water from two reservoirs opened to relieve the stress caused by a downpour that was threatening to equal or exceed in just a few days the area's average rainfall for a full year.

In that period, 725 million cubic meters of water evaporated from the surface every year, while an average — after removing two anomalous years — of only 350 million cubic meters entered due to the Jordan's nearly non-existent flow and the area's minimal rainfall.

The area's average rainfall is just 15mm per year and some weather stations here have never recorded any rain at all.

On 10 11 July 1968 a storm brought heavy rainfall to the Chew valley and Dundry, with 175 mm falling in 18 hours on Chew Stoke, double the area's average rainfall for the whole of July, and flooded 88 properties in Chew Magna with many being inundated with 8 feet of water.

In 2001, Tropical Storm Allison hovered above the Houston area for days, dumping up to 30 inches of rain — as much as 80% of the area's average annual rainfall over some neighborhoods.

The downpour dumped about 21in (53cm) of rain in parts of Boulder city, nearly double the area's average annual rainfall.

Light showers dampened Ryedale on Tuesday, the area's first proper rainfall for two and a half months.